by Katie Rooks | Jan 24, 2024 | Blog, Featured
The Alaska Legislature has been in session for just over a week and we have concerns. There’s an alarming trend in both bills and executive orders: stifling public participation, especially when it comes to protecting our home. Alaska seems to favor murky...
by Katie Rooks | Nov 15, 2023 | Blog, Ravencall
Alaska forest management plans falling short Southeast Alaska has one of the richest natural resources in the world: its vast temperate rainforest, including large tracts of undisturbed old-growth trees, the carbon storage stars of the climate discussion. Recently,...
by Matt Jackson | Nov 15, 2023 | Blog, Ravencall
Two bills bode well for renewable energy in Alaska Alaska’s oil math doesn’t add up. The state subsidizes oil extraction to the point of bankrupting itself, while regular Alaskans pay some of the highest fuel prices in the country and have some of the highest per...
by SEACC | Nov 8, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Press Releases
Regional groups seek tougher standards to protect Chilkat Watershed from Palmer Project wastewater HAINES, ALASKA DEISHÚ/LḴÓOT AND JILḴÁAT KWÁAN, November 1, 2023 — Conservation organizations challenged a controversial wastewater discharge permit for the Palmer...
by Meredith Trainor | Oct 25, 2023 | Blog, Featured
This morning, at 10:30 am Alaska time, the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining is having a hearing on pending legislation that includes three bills sponsored by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, including S.1889: the ‘Unrecognized Southeast Alaska...
by Katie Rooks | Oct 16, 2023 | Blog, Tongass
The Forest Service is proposing to log and treat more than 25,000 acres of young-growth timber near Thorne Bay and we are justifiably concerned. The Thorne Bay Basin Integrated Resource Management Project was initially scoped in 2022, but due to an intense response,...
